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HN to Kindle mentions (9)

• Amazon’s new Kindle Paperwhite adds bigger screen, longer battery life and USB-C

  There's also the excellent ebook-convert command line tool as part of Calibre which can be used to convert between the formats[1], I use it convert HN content to Kindle e-book for my https://hntokindle.com. [1] https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/ebook-convert.html. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Digital Minimalism: What are the alternative to screen time?

  Try printed news papers instead of news apps or sites, Apart from addressing your goals of Digital Minimalism the printed newspapers often have robust editorial practices if the publishing house has been in existence for say >100 years. > Kindle might be OK In case you want to read HN on Kindle too, I got you covered[1]. [1] https://hntokindle.com. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Web app to parse Kindle's My Clippings.txt

  This should work well with my https://hntokindle.com , Thank you! Source: over 2 years ago

• Tell HN: Amazon Kindle's browser is not experimental anymore

  I saw in your profile that you are using https://hntokindle.com to read HN on Kindle, Can you read the story as well or just the comments? - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• The Middle East is running out of water, and parts of it becoming uninhabitable

  I read HN on Kindle[1], So low bloat websites like these are always a pleasure to read on Kindle's forever experimental browser. The websites needn't be text only, Reducing useless elements like Techcrunch's content wrap can go a long way to improve readability and accessibility. [1] https://hntokindle.com/ (Disclaimer: I built this). - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

Hacker News mentions (501)

• GPT-4o

  Asking it about a user that doesn't exist (grdevhux1536): The user "grdevhux1536" on Hacker News demonstrates a thoughtful and analytical tone in their writing. They often engage deeply with technical topics, providing insightful comments and constructive criticism. Their expertise seems to be in software development and computer science, often discussing topics like LED game platforms and reverse engineering old... - Source: Hacker News / 21 days ago

• Show HN: Hacker Search – A semantic search engine for Hacker News

  Thanks for the feedback! One big distinction with the "site:https://news.ycombinator.com" hack is that the search on Hacker Search directly runs against the underlying link's contents, rather than whatever happens to be on HN. We also more directly leverage HN's curation by factoring in scores. Appreciate your suggestions; will look into building those! - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Show HN: Hacker Search – A semantic search engine for Hacker News

  Nice work! I'm sure you know that you can also search Google with site:https://news.ycombinator.com. If I were you I would probably think of a niche where one can get better results by searching HN and other relevant data sources. Another suggestion is not about the search so much but about the UI. One of the worse things about sites like HN is that it's really hard to... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• I want to create IMDB for Open source projects

  I'm not sure how much value making something "not fugly" really matters. Design should be based on functionality, not anti-fugliness. In my experience, design considerations should come after building a successful growth "feedback loop." (Or whatever you want to call it.) At that point, you may decide making your website look "polished" isn't even necessary. IMDB was certainly quite ugly for a long time.... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Ask HN: What is the ideal format to structure AI prompts?

  User input does not need to be sanitized if it is programmatically inserted into the document as the value of a key in a regular dict section. To work, I assume the target model needs to be trained on Braq documents with emphasis on the fact that only the top unnamed section contains root instructions (equivalent to the "system" role in ChatML). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34988748 [3]... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago